Von in Biological News

University of Leicester researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles

... uptake of drugs by the body's cells. Dr Klaus von Haeften explained: "A key advantage of the new ... information technology and healthcare." Dr von Haeften added: "The approach developed in ... journal by researchers Anthony Brewer and Klaus von Haeften. ...

TGen's Dr. Von Hoff wins award for cancer research

... PHOENIX, Ariz. March 18, 2009 Dr. Daniel von Hoff, Physician-In-Chief of the Translational ... his achievements in cancer research. Dr. von Hoff, who also is Chief Scientific Officer of ... this month in Arizona Business Magazine. Dr. von Hoff was honored March 4 at the magazine's 2009 ...

MIT student develops new innovations to selectively kill cancer cells

... it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical ... in systems that evolution has produced, von Maltzahn is currently helping to tackle one of ... of nanotechnology, engineering and medicine, von Maltzahn's innovations have the potential to ...

Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began

... what Earth was like when life evolved. Gnter von Kiedrowski, of Ruhr Universitt Bochum in Germany, ... everything but what is needed to survive," says von Kiedrowski. "We want to look at how you get to ... feedback loops within such systems," says von Kiedrowski. Complex systems chemistry cannot ...

2 Alexander von Humboldt professorships go to LMU Munich

... have been selected for the first Alexander von Humboldt professorships ever to be awarded. ... for Theoretical Physics at LMU. "The Alexander von Humboldt professorship allows Dvali to push ... in Munich hope very much that the Alexander von Humboldt research professorship will give ...

New chemotherapy combo produces side effects, but no extra efficacy, in early breast cancer patients

... other parts of the body. Professor Gunter von Minckwitz, Chairman of the German Breast Group, ... and rate of breast conservations, said Professor von Minckwitz. The overall rate of pathologic ... predictor of long-term activity, said Professor von Minckwitz. Given the lack of extra efficacy of ...

2 new therapies show promise for cancer patients

... Association for Cancer Research by Daniel von Hoff, MD, FACG, focused on basal cell carcinoma ... importance in this population, said Daniel D. von Hoff, M.D., Physician in Chief at the ... for approximately 450 days and is ongoing, von Hoff says, with almost no side effects beyond ...

NHLBI issues first US von Willebrand Disease clinical practice guidelines

... United States for the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand Disease (VWD), the most common ... low or absent levels of a blood protein called von Willebrand factor affect the bloods ability to clot. von Willebrand factor also carries with it clotting ...

Climate change in the Baltic Sea basin -- past, present and future

... the coordinator of the project, Professor Hans von Storch, who heads the Institute for Coastal ... they arent clear-cut predictions, says Hans von Storch, in order to explain the need for further ... statements regarding response strategies, adds von Storch. The research will continue to be ...

Rising food prices threaten world's poor people

... of falling food prices may be over, said Joachim von Braun, lead author of the report and director ... hunger, particularly when it is equitable, added von Braun. But unfortunately, growth does not always ... nutrition, and health in development policy, said von Braun. Above all, policies must target the worlds ...

Carnegie Mellon scientist uses mass spectrometer to weigh virus particle, von Willebrand factor

... has characterized large viral particles and bulky von Willebrand factors using a novel mass ... also collected an improved mass spectrum of a von Willebrand factor (0.2 to 1.1 megaDaltons), a ... Los Angeles Healthcare System, who together study von Willebrand factors. Marks analysis by mass ...

Elephantnose fish 'see' with their chin

... yes, then down to what depth,' Professor Gerhard von der Emde explains. 'It', that is the African ... it via sensors in the skin,' explains Professor von der Emde. Nearby objects distort the field, so ... which is a surprisingly complex one. Professor von der Emde and his team have tested what the ...

Leicester research paves way for first use in Europe of an insect to fight invasive plant

... a single clone, produced by cuttings from the original introduction by P. von Siebold in the 1850s making it one of the biggest females in the world! ... Knotweed was probably introduced from Japan as a garden plant by PF von Siebold from his nursery in Leiden in the 1850s. The molecular tools to ...

$10 million Simons Foundation gift supports new initiative with Institute for Advanced Study

... and Rockefeller's president from 1978 to 1990, and mathematician John von Neumann, a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 to 1957. Lederberg's and von Neumann's work on artificial intelligence, expert systems, ...

Van Andel Research Institute and TGen undertake alliance to promote science and health

... and implementing further translational research,'' said Dr. Daniel von Hoff, TGen's Physician-In-Chief and a world-renowned cancer scientist. ... from both organizations into real solutions for patients,'' said Dr. von Hoff, who also is Chief Scientific Officer of TGen Clinical Research ...

Researchers find chink in the armor of viral 'tummy bug'

... in developing countries. Institute Executive Director Professor Mark von Itzstein said research findings published in the world-leading Chemical ... but it is a sialic acid not accessible to sialidase treatment." Professor von Itzstein said. "This reveals that there is a common chink in the ...

Master gene plays key role in blood sugar levels

... the bloodstream. The finding has implications for a genetic disease called von Gierke's disease and potentially adult-onset diabetes. The symptoms suffered by mice resembled those of children born with von Gierke's disease, said O'Malley. The disorder can create serious problems ...

To fight the cancer before the tumor grows

... percent of all tumours. The researchers, led by Professor Dr. Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, Medical Director of the Department of Applied Tumor ... the immune reaction" There are two reasons for this, says Professor von Knebel Doeberitz. The immune system often reacts too slowly and some ...

MIT: Remote-control nanoparticles deliver drugs directly into tumors

... to see the clumped particles, Bhatias co-author in the current work, Geoff von Maltzahn, asked the next question: Can we talk back to them? The answer ... consist of strands of DNA, a classical heat sensitive material, said von Maltzahn, a graduate student in HST. Two strands of DNA link together ...

October Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada) Peter H. von Bitter, Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Natural History, 100 Queen's ... rarely truly know what has been lost from ancient ecosystems. von Bitter et al. describe such exceptions preserved in the ...

Possible drug target found for one of the most aggressive breast cancers

... Institute gives us a new target for treatment of patients with one of the worst types of breast cancer basal breast cancer," said Dr. Daniel D. von Hoff, Physician-in Chief of the Translational Genomic Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Arizona, which initiated an alliance with Van Andel ...

CWRU receives $5 million from Ohio Third Frontier Commission

... will be accompanied by a subset of eight new pilot projects determined through review by CSCRM oversight committees. Paul Tesar (CWRU), Horst von Recum (CWRU) and Jeremy Rich (CC) will establish a Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility within CWRU and CC which will be the first of its kind in the State ...

7th annual [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference 'Molecular Evolution' June 18-19, 2009

... Research Centre, NY, USA Stefan Rensing, University of Freiburg, Germany Nicolas Salamin, SIB & University of Lausanne, Switzerland Christian von Mering, SIB & University of Zurich, Switzerland Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. [BC]2 will take place June 18 from ...

Seventy-three scientists elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

... Diseases, Bethesda, MD Giorgio Trinchieri, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Peter H. von Hippel, University of Oregon, Eugene Lawrence P. Wackett, University of Minnesota, St. Paul E. Gerhart H. Wagner, Uppsala University, Sweden ...

Tips from the American Journal of Pathology

... intervention strategy for the acute phase of Th17-mediated autoimmune diseases such as MS." Klemann C, Raveney BJE, Klemann AK, Ozawa T, von Hrsten S, Shudo K, Oki S, Yamamura T: Synthetic retinoid AM80 inhibits Th17 cells and ameliorates EAE. Am J Pathol 2009, 174: 2234-2245 ...

ChloroFilms announces video contest winners

... an unforgetable way. More from this creative team is available at http://www.lelavision.com/ . First prizes ($500 cash awards) go to Daniel von Wangenheim of Cologne, Germany for his entry "fantastic vesicle traffic" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sRZy9PgPvg ; Kris Holmes of Rochester, NY ...

George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences

... C. Cope Award, and the Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal. From other institutions his awards include the Materials Research Society's von Hippel Award, the Welch Award from the Welch Foundation, the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, and the Franklin Foundation's Benjamin ...

7th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference

... UK; Karen E. Nelson, J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA, USA; Daniel E. Platt, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, NY, USA; Christian von Mering, SIB & University of Zurich, Switzerland; Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The annual Basel Computational Biology ...

Lehigh researcher awarded $1.8 million NIH grant

... fellow at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Washington. In 2005, he was awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Munich. Burger joined the Lehigh faculty in 2006. While this research may be fundamental in ...

UC San Diego bioengineering professor trey ideker wins 2009 Overton Prize

... , according to research from Trey Ideker's Bioengineering Lab Trey Ideker Part of Technology Commercialization Project Funded by UC San Diego's von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center UC San Diego Installs Supercomputer Dedicated to Bioengineering and Computational Biology Trey Ideker: ...

American Institute of Physics announces awards for best science writing

... March Meeting in Pittsburgh. Her book is also showcased at: http://annfinkbeiner.com/ . MORE ABOUT "FAUST IN COPENHAGEN" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was Germany's all-time greatest literary talent, and his lifetime masterpiece was "Faust," the dramatic retelling of an old cautionary tale: ...

Phoenix conference highlights TGen's and Scottsdale Healthcare's contributions to molecular oncology

... said Dr. Ramanathan, a Senior Investigator at TGen. Dr. Ramanathan is the co-program director of the conference, along with Dr. Daniel von Hoff, TGen's Physician-In-Chief and the Chief Scientific Officer at TCRS. Both doctors conduct groundbreaking personalized-medicine research and ...

13 UCR faculty members recognized by American Association for the Advancement of Science

... from deep-sea sediments, particularly for the discovery and characterization of new antitumor compounds including salinosporamide A." Stephan von Molnar 65 Ph.D., now at Florida State University: "For seminal research on magnetic polarons, the metal-insulator transition, dilute magnetic ...

Turning over a new leaf for future energy supplies

... energy supply based on biomass grown to generate electricity and produce fuel is a real possibility. According to Prof. Jrgen O. Metzger from Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany and Prof. Aloys Huettermann from the University of Goettingen in Germany, it is both a sustainable and ...

Major conference on food Dec. 1-2, 2008

... Seck, Director General, Africa Rice Center (WARDA) Carlos Ser, Director General, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Joachim von Braun, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Where: Joaquim Chissano Conference Center, Maputo, Mozambique ...

National and international doctoral training

... Aachen as well as external industrial partners. (Host university: Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn; Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Gerhard von der Emde) A better understanding of mathematical structures of equations in different applications of fluid mechanics is the goal of the ...

UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces

... the Center for Evolutionary Psychology; Michael Gurven, an associate professor of anthropology; and graduate students Daniel Sznycer and Christopher von Rueden. The study consisted of four sections, each of which asked the test subjects to assess the physical strength of individuals based on ...

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 10th Anniversary Conference

... Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics talk Sequencing the invisible - environmental genomics as a new challenge for bioinformatics Prof. Christian von Mering, SIB and Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich 16.50-17.00 Closing Words ...

Researchers develop nano-sized 'cargo ships' to target and destroy tumors

... multimode imaging of diseased tissue in a live animal," said Ji-Ho Park, a graduate student in Sailor's laboratory who was part of the team. Geoffrey von Maltzahn, a graduate student working in Bhatia's laboratory, was also involved in the project, which was financed by a grant from the National Cancer ...

TGen and Washington University researchers discover new approach to treating endometrial cancer

... promise for patients with uterine cancer (endometrioid endometrial) tumors that contain the FGFR2 mutation," said TGen physician-in-chief, Dr. Daniel von Hoff, "and offers yet another powerful example of how genomic medicine is changing the way we look at and treat cancer." Goodfellow agreed, "The ...